A Delicious Library replacement for Mac, iPhone and iPad
Delicious Library was discontinued in November 2024, after its book data source was cut off. Volumes picks up where it left off: a native Mac app for your shelves, with scanning on iPhone, lending, and your library in step on every device.
Delicious Library was the much-loved Mac app for cataloguing books on a virtual shelf, discontinued in November 2024. Volumes is a native Mac app too, in step with your iPhone and iPad.
Volumes and Delicious Library, feature by feature
Feature
Volumes
Delicious Library
No account needed
YesKept in your own iCloud
Yes
Not tracked across apps
Yes
Not listedNo longer listed
No ads
Yes
Yes
Native Mac app
YesNative on iPhone, iPad and Mac
YesMac only
Barcode scanning
YesOne book or a whole shelf
YesWebcam, or its iPhone scanner
Track who borrowed a book
YesPlus hand-over links
Yes
Record which shelf a book is on
Yes
Not listed
Save your own quotes
YesPhotograph the page
Not listed
Import from Goodreads
YesAlso StoryGraph, LibraryThing
Not listed
Export your library
NoComing soon
PartlyHTML export
No subscription or paid tier
YesEverything included
NoDiscontinued
Android or web
NoComing soon
No
YesPartlyNoNot mentioned in their own listing or help pages
If you can still open Delicious Library, export your library to a file. If the export has an ISBN column, Volumes reads it; otherwise, scanning a shelf at a time with your iPhone is quick.
1 · Out of Any spreadsheet with ISBNs
Export your library from the other app as a CSV file. Any spreadsheet works if it has a column with ISBN in its name.
2 · Into Volumes
Open Settings in Volumes
Under the library title on iPhone, the gear on iPad, and ⌘, on a Mac.
Import from Another App
Tap Choose a File and pick the export. Or share the file to Volumes from Files or Mail.
Add to My Library
Check the count, then add. Volumes tells you what came in and anything it couldn't use.
What to expect
Comes across
ISBN, title, authors, publisher, page count and year
The date added, if there's a column for it
Shelves, tags or collections, as lists
Stays behind
Reading status: every book comes in as not started
Ratings, reviews and locations
Books already in your library are skipped, so importing twice is safe. Want to see it first? Try a sample library.
Which is for you
An honest choice
Choose Delicious Library if…
You still have it running and it does everything you need: keep it as long as it lasts.
Choose Volumes if…
You want a native Mac app that's still made, in step with your iPhone and iPad.
You want to scan books with your iPhone, a whole shelf at a time.
You want lending, quotes and reading progress alongside the catalogue.
Privacy and price
What it costs you
Delicious Library
A local Mac app with no account.
It was a paid Mac app; it was discontinued in November 2024 and is no longer sold.
Volumes
No account and no ads. Your library is kept in your own iCloud, and Volumes doesn’t track you across other apps or websites. The privacy policy sets out the little that leaves your device.
Free on the App Store, with no subscription.
Delicious Library
What Delicious Library users will find
Covers on a shelf, a barcode scanner, and loans to friends: the parts people loved are all in Volumes, on the Mac and on the iPhone that does the scanning.
There's no virtual wooden shelf, and no Amazon. Your library syncs through your own iCloud instead of living in one Mac's files.
Questions
Good to know
Is Delicious Library still available?
No. It was discontinued in November 2024 and removed from sale.
Can I get my books out of Volumes later?
A full library export is coming soon. Until then you can share any single book or quote, and your library lives in your own iCloud rather than on our servers.
What do I need to run Volumes?
An iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later, or a Mac with macOS 26 or later. Volumes is free on the App Store.
Everything else
Everything else in Volumes
Your reading, your shelves, your loans and your quotes, in one private app on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
